Lister enjoyed all spicy food, but strong curries were his favourite. He even ate chicken vindaloo and drank chilled vindaloo sauce for breakfast.(RD: Waiting For God, RD: Psirens) Describing himself as a curryaholic, he admitted that years of vindaloo abuse had destroyed his tastebuds. (RD: Tikka To Ride). He even tried a caviar vindaloo (RD: Better Than Life) and a kipper vindaloo (RD: Bodyswap).

Red Dwarf seemed to have an endless supply of indian food for Lister. Even The Cat, Kryten and Rimmer indulged from time to time. Kryten insisted however that they did not eat curry every night, recalling an incident when Lister once ate a pizza, which was unpalatable until he poured curry sauce upon it. (RD: Holoship)

The Titan Taj Mahal was an Indian restaurant that advertised its one-fifth gravity curries before films at Red Dwarf's Cinema. (RD: Me²)

Curry night, which was held on at least six nights of the week, consisted of: 3 poppadoms with mango chutney, little onions, dill pickle, day-glo green mint sauce that just doesn't wash out, a weird red "stuff", a shammi kebab starter, a chicken vindaloo (kamikaze hot) with a fire extinguisher on standby, two scoops of coffee ice cream and two indigestion tablets. (RD: Tikka To Ride)

When the curry supplies were destroyed aboard Starbug, Lister went into shock. His desire for curry led him to risk destroying the timeline to secure a large takeaway order from another Taj Mahal restaurant in London. He was able to restore the timeline and retrieve the curry supplies using the Time drive. (RD: Tikka To Ride)

When an enormous bowel movement was required from a rampaging dinosaur, Lister and Kochanski created an enormous cow vindaloo, reasoning that since a dinosaur was tough it would like curry. The Tyrannosaur devoured the vindaloo, but it was too hot and he then stormed off to eat ice cream, ice pops and Coca-Cola. This later caused numerous digestive problems. (RD: Pete II)

Lister accidentally dripped curry sauce from a kebab onto the console in the Drive Room, setting it on fire. Lister put out the fire with a can of Leopard Lager. Rimmer was not pleased, demanding Lister fill out stacks of accident and safety forms. (RD: Trojan)

When the Dwarfers found themselves in 1st century India, Lister insisted that he be allowed to try a goat curry before they left. (RD: Lemons)